# MEDALLION OPERATING COMPANY, LLC — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2026-01-26 **Citation:** PHMSA Report 20260033 **Type / status:** incident / historical **Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration **Effective:** 2026-01-26 **Published:** 2026-02-24 Hazardous liquid incident in CRANE, CRANE COUNTY County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 4 CRUDE OIL released, $3,000 reported property damage. Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. Records may be supplemented or corrected and do not represent final agency causal findings. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious. ## Document text Hazardous liquid incident in CRANE, CRANE COUNTY County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 4 CRUDE OIL released, $3,000 reported property damage. Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. Records may be supplemented or corrected and do not represent final agency causal findings. Report number: 20260033. Operator ID: 39183. Reported incident date: 1/26/2026 12:30. Location detail: 0 Cause detail: PUMP OR PUMP-RELATED EQUIPMENT Cause detail: AT APPROXIMATELY 11:36 AM, PCC RECEIVED AN ALARM FOR BOOSTER PUMP 12331 AT CRANE, INDICATING A HI-HI LEVEL CONDITION IN THE PUMP SEAL POT. UPON NOTIFICATION THE STATION WAS IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN, AND NOTIFICATIONS WERE MADE TO LOCAL OPERATING PERSONNEL AND MANAGEMENT. ONCE ON-SITE PERSONNEL PERFORMED LOTO PROCEDURES, ISOLATED THE PUMP, AND INSTALLED SKILLET BLINDS ON THE SUCTION AND DISCHARGE LINES. FIELD PERSONNEL IDENTIFIED A FAILED PUMP SEAL AND AFTER FURTHER INVESTIGATION IT WAS DETERMINED INTERNAL PUMP COMPONENTS REQUIRED REPLACEMENT. MANAGEMENT CONTRACTED ODESSA PUMP TO FABRICATE A REPLACEMENT PUMP FOR INSTALLATION THE FOLLOWING DAY. THE NEW PUMP WAS INSTALLED AND NORMAL OPERATIONS RESUMED. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious. PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — PUMP/COMPRESSOR OR PUMP/COMPRESSOR-RELATED EQUIPMENT. PHMSA indexed costs: $31,522 reported total cost, $12,548.286 in 1984 dollars, $30,902.567 in current-year dollars. PHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings. ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents` - SHA-256: `ddee6835b4ac6aada5dc0c230a49d3817a0664422d7ec88957d9346abc3aab1b` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z - Exported: 2026-08-25T08:39:31.774Z - Document slug: `phmsa-incident-4dfc76adde82a43579d29d6b` ### Source metadata ```json { "recordKind": "pipeline_incident", "datasetType": "hazardous_liquid", "datasetLabel": "Hazardous liquid", "datasetPeriod": "January 2010 to present", "report": { "number": "20260033", "supplementalNumber": "41970", "type": "ORIGINAL FINAL", "receivedDate": "2026-02-24", "receivedDateRaw": "2/24/2026" }, "operator": { "id": "39183", "name": "MEDALLION OPERATING COMPANY, LLC" }, "incident": { "date": "2026-01-26", "dateRaw": "1/26/2026 12:30" }, "location": { "city": "CRANE", "county": "CRANE COUNTY", "state": "TX", "postalCode": "79731", "latitude": 31.43856, "longitude": -102.361262, "type": "TOTALLY CONTAINED ON OPERATOR-CONTROLLED PROPERTY", "details": { "DESIGNATED_NAME": "0" }, "facilityName": "CRANE STATION" }, "cause": { "category": "EQUIPMENT FAILURE", "details": { "CAUSE_DETAILS": "PUMP OR PUMP-RELATED EQUIPMENT", "NARRATIVE": "AT APPROXIMATELY 11:36 AM, PCC RECEIVED AN ALARM FOR BOOSTER PUMP 12331 AT CRANE, INDICATING A HI-HI LEVEL CONDITION IN THE PUMP SEAL POT. 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